Kristen Nelson

Cook Inlet natural gas production averaged 203,995 thousand cubic feet per day in May, up 1,733 mcf per day, 0.9%, from an April average of 202,262 mcf per day and up 1.6% from a May 2023 average of 200,719 mcf per day. Volumes are calculated from Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission data, re....

Point Thomson back in production; biggest crude decline, 43.2%, 6,764 bpd, at ConocoPhillips Alaska's Greater Moose Tooth in NPR-A

Cannery Loop includes possible new wells; Deep Creek has evaluation of possible new well; evaluations at Seaview, including CBM

20 years ago this month: Oooguruk pad would be in Harrison Bay; also looking at Gwydyr Bay, near BP's'97 Pete's Wicked discovery

First half averaged $84 per barrel, after $82 average in June; $89 second half forecast on declining supplies, increasing demand

Great Bear Petroleum has filed a unit plan of operations to build the Megrez gravel pad and drill the Megrez 1 exploration well 700 feet west of the Dalton Highway in the Talitha unit, 25 miles south of Deadhorse. The plan, filed with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and....

Mustang Holding, a Finnex Operating company, has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expand the pad at the Mustang field in the Southern Miluveach unit. The corps is accepting comments through Aug. 8.

Hilcorp Alaska, operator of the Beluga River unit, has applied to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for vertical expansion of the Sterling-Beluga gas pool to include shallower sands. In a June 27 application the company asked for an amendment to rule 2 of Conservation Order 802 "to ver....

20 years ago this month: Hearings begin with lessons from state's experience with oil taxation, trans-Alaska oil pipeline tariff

The Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 586 the week ending July 19, up by two rigs from 584 the previous week, and down by 83 from 660 a year ago, after dropping by one the week ending July 12. Over the last eight weeks the rig count was unchanged one week, down in five and up in two w....